The 12th Kazakhstan-China-Korea Meeting on Stellar Dynamics and related fields (KCK-2020) will be hosted this year by the Energetic Cosmos Laboratory of Nazarbayev University (Nur-Sultan city), during October 26-30, 2020. The workshop title includes only three countries; nonetheless, participants from any country are welcomed. [workshop postponed]

There was information in some local mass media that the solar eclipse of December 26, 2019 will be observed in Almaty at 11:18 a.m. In fact, however, the peak of the eclipse will occur almost an hour earlier, at 10:12, while by the mentioned time it will be over. The maximum disk coverage will reach 27%.

On December 4, 2019 at 11 a.m. we have a seminar entitled "Rotational evolution of neutron stars in gaseous medium with magnetic field", which will be delivered by Vitaliy Kim, a researcher in the laboratory of physics of stars and nebulae of FAPHI.

On October 14, at 2:30 pm we have a presentation by Dr. Rosaly Lopes, a planetary geologist and volcanologist. The meeting will also be attended by mass media and representatives of the U.S. Consulate.

In the framework of the Space Week we will have the meeting at Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute with Dr. Shannon Walker, a NASA astronaut, on October 3, at 2 pm.

On August 9, at 11:00 a.m., we have a seminar where prof. Shih-Ping Lai from the National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) will give a talk titled "Fortune telling with Astrochemistry: How efficient the Universe produces stars?"

The NUTTelA-TAO, a joint project of the Energetic Cosmos Laboratory (Nazarbayev University), Space Sciences Laboratory (UC, Berkely) and Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute, has entered the regime of remote control using satellite communication channel.